Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' interest in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main problem we have found is that the hens ' interest in simple peckable objects wanes rapidly . |
| 2 | Borrowers taking the 20 to 25 year fixed rate will be charged six months ' interest in years one to four , three months ' interest in years five to nine and one month 's interest from year ten onwards . |
| 3 | Borrowers taking the 20 to 25 year fixed rate will be charged six months ' interest in years one to four , three months ' interest in years five to nine and one month 's interest from year ten onwards . |
| 4 | The maximum loan to property value is 85 per cent , the arrangement fee is £295 and the early redemption penalty is nine months ' interest in years one to three , six months ' in year four and four months ' in the final year . |
| 5 | In certain dispute resolution processes , for example mediation , conciliation and enquiry , a third party assists the parties in resolving the dispute , but that person 's function is to attempt to focus the parties ' interest in its resolution , not to widen its parameters beyond their concerns . |
| 6 | Contingent economic agreements provided for a repeal of the US ban on the import of Soviet gold coins , the lifting of restrictions on Soviet borrowing from the US government 's Export-Import Bank ( which was expected to stimulate US companies ' interest in setting up joint ventures in the Soviet Union ) , and payment by the Soviet Union of a debt of US$674,000,000 owed for supplies furnished under the Lend-Lease programme during the Second World War . |
| 7 | They drew 1-1 in Brussels with a late equaliser from Dean Saunders a result which virtually ended the Belgians ' interest in the competition after their 3-1 defeat in Cardiff three months earlier . |
| 8 | This link accounted for Osprey 's directors ' interest in Crane Holdings which was part of the same network . |
| 9 | The absence of a non-Roman catholic school in the immediate area and the naïve belief that they were empowered in some way to have a say in what type of school should appear on their housing estate — there was a small Roman catholic school which was to be expanded to cater for the growth of the population — may have sharpened catholic parents ' interest in having an integrated school . |
| 10 | The House of Lords accepted evidence that the NSPCC relied on anonymous informants for much of its work in child protection and held that the public interest in informants coming forward with information outweighed the parents ' interest in being able to sue a malicious busybody . |
| 11 | It was an awareness of this contrast that led to the Cubists ' interest in the violin and the guitar as plastic forms around 1910 . |
| 12 | Patrick Motors ' interest in car design goes back to the '30s when the company designed and built its own ‘ Patrick Specials ’ . |
| 13 | His contract is up at the end of the season , and there will be the traditional periodic reports of other clubs ' interest in him . |
| 14 | Equally the long-lived persistence of authoritarian regimes in post-war capitalist societies ( as in Spain , Portugal , Greece , Brazil and Argentina ) reawakened Marxist writers ' interest in explaining ‘ exceptional ’ regimes . |
| 15 | Airdrie have ended Hearts ' interest in the Scottish Cup in the past two seasons and are the only domestic side to have beaten them home and away this term . |
| 16 | In practice , management development proposals find it hard to claim managers ' interest in the face of demand for improved patient care , professional training , etc . |
| 17 | A doctor found his patients ' interest in his electric wheelchair useful in this respect , and a social worker found that his guide dog helped : ‘ Even when there 's an awful atmosphere he 's wagging his tail . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) Will conflicts like the following restrict you ? ( a ) Conflicts of client interest ( the traditional conflicts ) : in many firms with mixed practices , the partners ' interest in maintaining work from insurers or corporate clients nearly always takes precedence over their interest in private plaintiffs . |
| 19 | They are entitled , in other words , to regard the members ' interest in the company as being in general a continuing one . |
| 20 | The course aims to foster pupils ' interest in the chemical nature of their environment through practical investigation of topics such as separation of mixtures , acids and alkalis , elements and compounds , air and water , carbon , CO2 and carbonates and reactions of metals . |
| 21 | Although the object of Formalist literary science was literariness and not individual works of literature , one of the principal consequences of the Formalists ' interest in literariness was an increased awareness of genre . |
| 22 | The point was that the plaintiffs ' interest in Jarrad exceeded their interest in Jesner , and they contended that the object of Jarrad had been to provide money for the family and not to have its assets syphoned off to prop up Jesner . |
| 23 | It was their much-praised BCR exhibition in 1986 that revived his own and others ' interest in the old railway and led to the process of discussion that ( in the relaxed South Shropshire way ) led to the formation of the Society three years later . |
| 24 | It was designed to " intensify enterprises ' interest in increasing output and boosting production efficiency " , and to broaden financial autonomy , by effectively introducing competitive bargaining between enterprises . |
| 25 | Even Gorbachev proclaimed the Soviet Unions ' interest in participating in the management of the world market economy . |
| 26 | During the parliamentary debates , the main feature was the male MPs ' interest in the ‘ equality ’ issue . |
| 27 | Partnership is a more recent concept and it would not fit in too well with the motivations which inspired early industrialists ' and educationalists ' interest in further and higher education . |